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    The passage discusses the role of poets and poetry in relation to beliefs and truth. It notes that in the late 20th century, the role of poets shifted from "poet as truth seeker" to "poet as truth maker" through relativism and denying truth beyond individual poems. However, this relativism has failed according to post-secular philosophers. While religious symbolism has been damaged, there is a need for poets to find new forms and images to express religious ideas and experiences. The passage explores ways forward for poetry through difficulty and abstraction, and examines the works of Auden, Lewis, Levertov, as well as theoretical approaches of Williams, Milbank, and Pickstock.

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    The passage discusses the role of poets and poetry in relation to beliefs and truth. It notes that in the late 20th century, the role of poets shifted from "poet as truth seeker" to "poet as truth maker" through relativism and denying truth beyond individual poems. However, this relativism has failed according to post-secular philosophers. While religious symbolism has been damaged, there is a need for poets to find new forms and images to express religious ideas and experiences. The passage explores ways forward for poetry through difficulty and abstraction, and examines the works of Auden, Lewis, Levertov, as well as theoretical approaches of Williams, Milbank, and Pickstock.

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    I.

    A Richards: ‘Poetry and Beliefs’

    The business of the poet, as we have seen, is to give order and


    coherence, and so freedom, to a body of experience. To do so through
    words which act as its skeleton, as a structure by which the impulses
    which make up the experience are adjusted to one another and act
    together. The means by which words do this are many and varied. To
    work them out is a problem for linguistic psychology, that embarrassed
    young heir to philosophy. What little can be done shows already that
    most critical dogmas of the past are either false or nonsense. A little
    knowledge is not here a danger, but clears the air in a remarkable way.

    Contemporary Poetry and Belief - Michael Symmons Roberts

    The role of poet had shifted, in the late twentieth century, from ‘poet as
    truth seeker’ (O la Marianne Moore) to ‘poet as truth maker’. But this
    relativism and denial of truth beyond the poem(the collapse of so called
    ‘meta-narratives’) is in reverse now. Why? Because, according to
    post-secular philosophers like Blond, the project of relativism has failed.
    But, given the damage to religious symbolism and currency, that David
    Jones warned of fifty years ago, this is both crisis and an opportunity for
    poets. There is a need to find new forms and images to express ‘religious
    ideas and experiences. Bonhoeffer looked for the emergence of a new
    kind of language for this. But ‘religious poetry’ has always been
    innovative - e.g., modernists like Eliot, Jones, Moore, Bunting. Science
    offers new metaphors too, new approaches. And science has led the way
    out of the ‘hall of mirrors’ because climate change is nothing if not
    meta-narrative. The ways forward for poetry include ascension through
    difficulty and abstraction, and this essay shows three ways of exploring it
    - Auden, Lewis, Levertov - along with three theoretical approaches.
    Those of Williams, Milbank, Pickstock, ‘praise poetry’ being the ultimate
    challenge. It also looks at way forward through Welsh-language poetry,
    exemplified by Bobi Jones and others.

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